Boca vs. River - 26 noviembre 2018
Alrighty well it`s been a pretty good week. Mi refuerzo is Elder Jackson Hill from Lehi, Utah. He`s a capo. His spanish is kinda lacking but that`s pretty normal haha. Needless to say, I do most of the talking, and all of the listening. We found some good people this week which was exciting. We have been lacking progressing people for quite a while, so hopefully these new people can help us change that.
So basically the biggest troll ever happened on saturday and yesterday. Well I don`t know if you remember about Boca and River, but they are the two biggest teams in Argentina and it is a heated rivalry. Well the Copa Libertadores is going on, which is the tournament between all the teams from South America. Well it just so happens that both Boca and River ended up in the championship game, which was supposed to happen on saturday. Well to make this long story short, basically what happened is that as the Boca team bus was on the way to the River stadium, a huge mob of River fans chucked a bunch of bottles, rocks, and smoke bombs at the bus as it was passing on the street. They shattered a ton of the windows and several of the players unded up getting cuts. They ended up having to cancel the game and moved it for sunday(yesterday). So on sunday everybody got hyped up again, but apparently there were some more problems, so they had to cancel it again, and now I think the game isn`t going to be until Tuesday or something like that. Basically the whole thing was a huge letdown because everyone was hyped out of their minds for the game. It also made it hard for us on saturday and sunday because everyone was in their houses and wouldn`t come out all afternoon because they were expecting the game to be played.
Being with Elder Hill reminds me a ton of when I was getting trained. The confused look on his face that he has when people talk to him always cracks me up because I remember what that`s like. It has also reminded me of the importance of the Spirit. Our first day, tuesday, we contacted this guy and we started talking about the Book of Mormon with him. We gave him one and then I told Elder Hill to share his testimony. He simply said: Yo...sé...que..el Libro...de Mormón...es verdadero. It took a while for him to get it all out, and it sounded pretty Gringo, but yet it felt very powerful to me. It made me think of the first time I bore a testimony in the mission field. It reminded me that when we put in our best effort, the Lord makes up for the rest. ¨For my strength is made perfect in weakness.¨
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